Chapter Summaries

Xu Yi retaliated against Li Tong and confronted Xie Xuntian, then revealed his standing as a Star Refining Master when he met Alliance Leader Zuo Xinghai. Xie Xuntian tried to make peace, but Xu Yi headed for the Extreme Luck Hall, where Tong Yu Lin was waiting.

• Xu Yi blasted Li Tong through a wall after Xie Xuntian tried to take him outside and settle the dispute.
• Xie Xuntian met Zuo Xinghai, who recognized Xu Yi and awkwardly agreed to back him up.
• Zuo Xinghai reminded Xie Xuntian that Xu Yi was a Black-rank Star Refining Master treated as an equal by Spring City's council chairs.
• Xie Xuntian apologized and promised to protect Xu Yi at Kun Peng Manor.
• Xu Yi asked Zuo Xinghai to take him to the Extreme Luck Hall, and Xie Xuntian realized Tong Yu Lin was there.

Xu Yi confronted Tong Yu Lin in the Extreme Luck Hall over Tong’s scheme against him and brutally slapped him in front of powerful allies. After You Guan challenged him, Xu Yi insulted him and dared him to summon Chen Tai Zhong, leaving You Guan speechless.

• Xie Xuntian took Zuo Xinghai’s advice and left rather than get caught between Xu Yi and Tong Yu Lin.
• Xu Yi entered the Extreme Luck Hall, and Zuo Xinghai warned him about the powerful people gathered around Tong Yu Lin.
• Xu Yi dragged Zuo Xinghai over to Tong Yu Lin, who mocked them and laughed at Xu Yi’s attempt to invoke Zuo’s status.
• Xu Yi seized Tong Yu Lin and slapped him repeatedly, accusing him of using a filthy trick after rejecting the gift of blue Star Spirit Essences.
• You Guan confronted Xu Yi, but Xu Yi dared him to fetch Chen Tai Zhong and called him a swaggering underling, leaving You Guan stunned.

Xu Yi humiliated Tong Yu Lin and drew attention at the Kun Peng Gathering when Deputy Alliance Leader Chen Tai Zhong stopped to speak with him. After realizing Xu Yi had powerful connections, Tong Yu Lin and his companions apologized, but Xu Yi dismissed them.

• Xu Yi beat Tong Yu Lin, warned him, and left without Liu Yong Quan, Sun Guan Dao, Yu Yi, or You Guan daring to intervene.
• Chen Tai Zhong arrived at the gathering, gave a speech, and unexpectedly stopped to exchange thoughts with Xu Yi.
• Other cultivators crowded around Tong Yu Lin and You Guan, assuming they were Xu Yi's friends and asking for an introduction.
• Zuo Xinghai praised Xu Yi and offered his support, but Xu Yi told him to leave so he could eat.
• Tong Yu Lin, You Guan, Yu Yi, Liu Yong Quan, and Chen Guan Dao approached Xu Yi, and Tong Yu Lin knelt to apologize; Xu Yi ordered them to get lost.

Xu Yi learned that the Empty Void Young Master was a renowned alchemist and intervened when Dong Huang Lin pressured him to refine pills. Dong Huang Lin tried to seize the alchemist by force, but a golden-armored cultivator blocked his escape.

• Xu Yi dismissed the people seeking favors or resources and stayed to eat at the gathering.
• The Empty Void Young Master arrived and announced an alchemy gathering, drawing an eager crowd.
• You Guan told Xu Yi that the Empty Void Young Master was a mysterious alchemist surnamed Xu and identified Dong Huang Lin as a member of the Dong Huang Family.
• Xu Yi stepped in and mocked Dong Huang Lin’s conduct, while the Empty Void Young Master said Dong Huang Lin had repeatedly pressured him to refine pills.
• Dong Huang Lin threatened to take the Empty Void Young Master by force, who fled before a golden-armored cultivator appeared to block him.

Xu Yi attacked Dong Huang Lin and defeated his four Fifth Realm Golden Armored Generals, shocking everyone at the Kun Peng Gathering. He apologized to Empty Void Young Master and invited him to spend the night together.

• The four Golden Armored Generals cornered Empty Void Young Master while Dong Huang Lin demanded that he submit to his third brother.
• Xu Yi broke Dong Huang Lin's Protective Light Barrier, seized him, and tortured him with a Ba Pearl.
• The four Golden Armored Generals attacked Xu Yi, but his Unknowing Sword knocked all four down and left them unable to fight.
• Tong Yu Lin and the other onlookers watched in shock as Dong Huang Lin lay defeated.
• Xu Yi apologized to Empty Void Young Master and invited him to share a bed and talk through the night.

Xu Yi pursued Empty Void Young Master until she revealed herself as Xuan Lengyan, his nominal master, and reunited with her at a snowy hot spring. Xuan Lengyan and Xu Yi shared an intimate encounter, and she awoke to him offering her spiritual wine.

• Empty Void Young Master transformed into a woman and offered Xu Yi three top-grade Star Turning Pills, but he captured her and carried her to a hot spring in the snowy mountains.
• Empty Void Young Master recognized the place from her first meeting with Xu Yi, realized he was her disciple, and accused him of treason against his master.
• Xu Yi revealed his true appearance and greeted Xuan Lengyan as his master, and she kissed him before their reunion turned intimate.
• Xuan Lengyan awoke in the hot spring, and Xu Yi offered her warmed spiritual wine that soothed her aching body.

Xu Yi and Xuan Lengyan reunited and shared how she had escaped a powerful organization and hidden her identity while seeking him. Their reunion was interrupted when Dong Huang Yu and a mysterious old man arrived and abducted Xuan Lengyan, leaving Xu Yi furious and confronting the Dong Huang Family.

• Xu Yi and Xuan Lengyan lounged in a hot spring and recounted how she had joined powerful organizations, escaped her pursuers, and adopted the identity of Empty Void Young Master Xu Yi to reach him.
• Xuan Lengyan explained that Dong Huang Yu had tracked her down and courted her by leaving gifts, while Dong Huang Lin later tried to seize her to win his brother's favor.
• Xu Yi urged Xuan Lengyan to leave the hot spring before the Imperial Decree Platform opened, but she chose to stay longer.
• Dong Huang Yu and a stooped old man attacked; the old man seized the unconscious Xuan Xuan while Xu Yi was occupied resisting a giant palm.
• Xu Yi shattered the giant palm with his swords and challenged Dong Huang Yu for abducting a woman instead of fighting him directly.

Xu Yi pursued Dong Huang Yu and the hunchbacked old man after they took Xuan Lengyan, while seeking help to keep her safe. A mysterious Quasi-Emperor-level figure then seized her from them, prompting Dong Huang Yu to decide Xu Yi had to die.

• Dong Huang Yu taunted Xu Yi and blamed him for taking Xuan Lengyan's maidenhood, while Xu Yi threatened the Eastern Huang Ancient Clan if she was harmed.
• The hunchbacked old man told Dong Huang Yu that Alliance Leader Yan had ordered them not to kill Xu Yi, so Dong Huang Yu challenged Xu Yi to meet him at the Imperial Decree Platform and departed with the old man.
• Xu Yi pursued them, learned Big Yellow was on his way, and asked Huang Mei for advice; he then contacted Xia Huosong to seek Chen Tai Zhong's help in protecting Xuan Lengyan.
• A black-cloaked man appeared, froze Dong Huang Yu and the hunchbacked old man in place, and carried Xuan Xuan away.
• Dong Huang Yu and the hunchbacked old man recognized the stranger as a Quasi-Emperor-level expert, and Dong Huang Yu agreed Xu Yi had to be killed.

Xu Yi pursued the force holding Xuan Lengyan and learned that his enemy wanted the Supreme Godhead, while the black-robed figure revealed that Xuan Lengyan had been used to test him. After returning to the Xing Tian Sect, Xu Yi recovered from burning his immortal soul and pressed Lie Yan Yang for more help before the Imperial Decree Platform opened.

• A golden message offered to exchange Xuan Lengyan for the Supreme Godhead, and Xu Yi accepted on the condition that she be protected.
• The little wolfdog attacked the hidden enemy, was badly injured, and returned to Xu Yi with a piece of the enemy’s robe before the figure vanished.
• The black-robed figure told Xuan Lengyan that he had arranged her escape and pursuit to test Xu Yi, then took her away after she woke.
• Alliance Leader Chen contacted Xu Yi about the Eastern Huang Ancient Clan, and Xu Yi said only he and Dong Huang Yu could resolve their misunderstanding.
• The little wolfdog carried the exhausted Xu Yi back to the Xing Tian Sect, where Lie Yan Yang gave him three Soul Strengthening Pills.
• After recovering, Xu Yi reminded Lie Yan Yang about a promised gift and asked him for more help before the Imperial Decree Platform opened.

Xu Yi entered the Imperial Decree Platform despite the Dong Huang Family’s bounty and found himself stranded in a strange wilderness under immense gravity. With most of his treasures and allies cut off, he began searching for provisions.

• Lie Yan Yang gave Xu Yi his last Nine Gold Pearl, and Xu Yi hurried back to the Spring City Council’s base.
• Xia Huosong and Zhong Changming warned Xu Yi that the Dong Huang Family had placed a bounty on him, but he insisted on entering the Imperial Decree Platform.
• Xu Yi drifted down the Jialing River until his Imperial Decree Tablet opened a portal, which he entered.
• Xu Yi endured astral winds and fell into a wilderness where immense gravity limited his movement.
• Xu Yi found that his connections to Old Desolate, the little wolfhound, and the Thousand Illusions Heavy Thunder Sword were blocked, though he could still sense the Dark Gourd.
• Xu Yi decided to hunt wild beasts for provisions and discovered he could still perceive his surroundings within ten li.

Xu Yi received a trial notice ordering him to reach a stronghold within three hours and raced across the beast-filled trial grounds. He reached the stronghold after escaping a white-grade beast and its pursuing horde, though his safety appeared temporary.

• Xu Yi waited in a cliffside cave, received a map and a notice to reach the stronghold within three hours, and set off east with a basket of fruit.
• Xu Yi encountered and killed a blue-grade beast, then grew alarmed as he sensed strange beasts growing denser along his route.
• Xu Yi drew the beasts toward him and fled, but a white-grade beast broke through his attacks as he raced toward the stronghold.
• Xu Yi brought down a cliff to obstruct the pursuing beasts and reached a pitch-black cave at the stronghold as a horde thundered overhead.

Xu Yi entered a cave inside the Imperial Decree Platform, where Wu Fazhu explained its trials, merit points, and return conditions. After receiving new instructions through the panel in his sea of consciousness, Xu Yi converted a blue-grade beast core and earned one merit point.

• Xu Yi assessed the powerful cultivators in the cave, rested, and ate fruit after fleeing into the Imperial Decree Platform.
• Wu Fazhu accepted Xu Yi's fruit and explained that the platform's trials changed between visits, while later challenges rewarded divine ranks according to merit points.
• Wu Fazhu told the gathered cultivators they needed enough merit points to activate a return passage or else wait for the platform to seal and transport them out.
• Light flecks entered the cultivators' spiritual platforms, updating their panels with information about merit points and a spell formula for converting resources.
• Xu Yi used the formula on a blue-grade alien beast core and received one merit point.

Xu Yi watched Wu Fazhu gain authority over the cultivators preparing to travel through Purple Luo Gorge to the Heavenly Demon Domain, while anticipating that the weaker cultivators would be treated as cannon fodder. As everyone settled down to cultivate, Xu Yi searched the cavern for a hidden danger but found nothing suspicious.

• Xu Yi revealed his small haul of heterocores and was looked down on by the other cultivators.
• A middle-aged Taoist nun asked Wu Fazhu to advise the group on the route ahead, and Wu Fazhu accepted a leading role.
• A blue-faced cultivator proposed that Wu Fazhu lead the operation with the seven peak Human Immortals forming a council and enforcing obedience with lethal discipline.
• Xu Yi recognized that the powerful cultivators had formed a privileged class and that lower-realm cultivators would likely serve as cannon fodder.
• Wu Fazhu promised to protect the group's interests, warned everyone to follow orders, and told them to cultivate before the march.
• While the others meditated, Xu Yi searched the cavern with his perception but found no sign of anything amiss.

Xu Yi discovered that the fake waning moon pointed to a hidden crescent mark in the cavern, then used the mark to gain an oddity that could unseal his belongings. He left the cavern with the Immortal Slaying Sword unsealed, though his other important items remained inaccessible.

• Xu Yi realized the waning moon was fake and found a matching crescent mark on the cavern wall.
• Xu Yi sat beside Wu Fazhu, pretending to seek his favor while secretly rubbing his back against the mark.
• When Wu Fazhu ordered everyone to leave, Xu Yi recited an incantation and made the crescent mark vanish, gaining an oddity on his consciousness panel.
• Xu Yi learned that one oddity could not unseal his Spirit Beast Bag or several powerful items, though he could sense the contents of his Starry Sky Ring.
• Xu Yi used the oddity to unseal the Immortal Slaying Sword on his finger and sensed the weapon.

Xu Yi and the other cultivators advanced east until they encountered an enormous beast tide and formed a Plum Blossom Formation to fight through it. Xu Yi struggled to keep his place as the formation rotated, while Wu Fazhu expelled an exhausted fighter and filled the gap himself.

• Wu Fazhu organized the cultivators into squads and formations as they traveled east, and Xu Yi joined Fan Zhenyong's sixth squad.
• After the group had traveled thousands of li, Xu Yi sensed danger but decided he could neither flee nor warn the others without arousing suspicion.
• The cultivators saw a vast, towering sea of strange beasts approaching, and Wu Fazhu ordered them to tighten their formation.
• More than forty Human Immortals formed a Plum Blossom Formation and charged into the beast tide, with Xu Yi holding a position on the outer ring.
• Xu Yi exhausted himself defending his section, recovered briefly in the inner ring, then returned to the outer ring when Wu Fazhu called for another rotation.
• When a fighter on Xu Yi's left ran out of strength, Wu Fazhu kicked him from the formation and took his place.

Xu Yi and the survivors endured the deadly beast tide and reached the outskirts of Purple Luo Gorge, where Wu Fazhu’s leadership came under challenge. Liu Fengxiao and the Fifth Realm cultivators turned against Wu Fazhu, shattering the group’s unity just as they faced a ghostly cave.

• Xu Yi held his position through the beast tide, and the group raced onward until Wu Fazhu dispersed the Plum Blossom Formation.
• Wu Fazhu warned the survivors that the Imperial Decree Platform had become unusually deadly, but Xu Yi encouraged them to keep going.
• The Middle-aged Taoist Nun praised Xu Yi, and Wu Fazhu rallied the survivors with the promise that they could withdraw after reaching the Heavenly Demon Domain.
• The group reached a cave near Purple Luo Gorge, and Wu Fazhu ordered Liu Fengxiao and Guo Xuande to investigate it.
• Liu Fengxiao accused Wu Fazhu of treating cultivators as cannon fodder, and fifteen Fifth Realm cultivators gathered around him against Wu.

Xu Yi maneuvered the cultivators into choosing him as their new leader by agreeing to enter the eerie cave first. Inside, he discovered a new Singularity and used it to unlock the Earth-Muddled Badge Elder Tong had given him.

• Liu Fengxiao and Lin Dongqing challenged Wu Fazhu to prove his leadership by investigating the cave, and the other full-realm cultivators withdrew their support for him.
• Wu Fazhu stepped down, and Xu Yi argued that the new leader needed unified authority and the trust of the cultivators.
• Xu Yi volunteered to compete for leadership, with Liu Fengxiao and the others supporting him on the condition that he enter the cave first.
• Xu Yi entered the cave, sat beside a blue-stone table, and ate and drank while inspecting his sea of consciousness.
• Xu Yi found the Purity of Courage Singularity on his panel and used it to unlock the Earth-Muddled Badge Elder Tong had given him.

Xu Yi led the group through a cavern into Purple Luo Gorge after revealing that he had obtained a Purity of Courage Singularity and unsealed one of his treasures. He kept the fragile alliance together by assigning Chen Luobei and Kuang Dangyang a profitable hunt, then rebuffing the crowd’s complaints and threatening to stop speaking for them.

• Xu Yi explained that the cavern’s formation had caused the false alarm, shared the food and wine with the exhausted group, and told them he had obtained a Purity of Courage Singularity and benefits for them.
• Xu Yi warned that Purple Luo Gorge would be more dangerous than the sea of beasts, urged the group to cooperate, and led them out of the cavern.
• After the group traveled a little over a hundred li, Xu Yi sent Chen Luobei and Kuang Dangyang ten li northwest to finish a fight while the others continued onward.
• Chen Luobei and Kuang Dangyang returned with two Azure-grade exotic beast cores and praised Xu Yi, prompting the group to question why they had been chosen for the hunt.
• Wu Fazhu quieted the crowd, and Xu Yi refused to justify his decision, threatened to stop speaking for the group, and sped ahead as everyone followed.

Xu Yi led the group through Purple Luo Gorge by using his perception to pick off the exotic beasts before they could gather, earning the cultivators’ trust. After they reached a cave to rest, he claimed that his beast-movement map might stop working because he lacked merit points, leaving the group to wonder whether he was truly asking for help or extorting them.

• Xu Yi silenced the cultivators who had challenged him and warned that he would quit leading if anyone stirred up trouble again.
• Xu Yi repeatedly sent groups to intercept exotic beasts, secretly using his perception to prevent the beasts from gathering while the others believed they were hunting for spoils.
• With the seven peak cultivators’ help, Xu Yi guided the group through the first wave of the beast tide and led them to a secluded cave.
• Xu Yi told the group that he had obtained a map of the beasts’ movements but might no longer be able to help them.
• Wu Fazhu guessed that the map required merit points, and Xu Yi agreed while suggesting that the others might suspect him of lying to obtain benefits.

Xu Yi collected exotic beast cores from the group by claiming he needed them to reactivate the movement map, then led them through Purple Luo Gorge and realized his guidance had made the challenge seem easy. He sent everyone away with warnings of a beast tide and vanished, leaving Wu Fazhu to demand to know who had last seen Xue Xiang.

• Chen Luobei and Kuang Dangyang privately complained that Xu Yi was exploiting the group while publicly defending him.
• Xu Yi accepted contributions from the cultivators, receiving the equivalent of one hundred and thirteen green-grade exotic beast cores.
• Xu Yi led the group through more than a thousand li without encountering many exotic beasts and realized his perception had helped them pass Purple Luo Gorge’s challenge.
• Fearing the group would turn against him once they reached the Heavenly Demon Domain, Xu Yi claimed a massive beast tide was approaching and assigned everyone to distant locations.
• Xu Yi disappeared while the group was away, and Wu Fazhu silenced the returning cultivators and asked who had last seen Xue Xiang.